Oops. (new job, day two)

[da]

I was just cleaning my office phone. One of the buttons links me to the voice-dial directory. I apparently hit that, and the sound of me cleaning the phone sounded sufficiently like a name, and dimly through the earpiece I heard something like, "Do you wish to talk to Kim Chopper?"

Thanks but... not really.

My old office is just as I remember. Except it's missing a filing cabinet. Which could leave me room for a comfy chair, though I think that might be politically tricky since nobody else in CSCF has a comfy chair. *pout* (Murphy bed in file cabinet? Hmmm.)

I have a brand new iMac, with a wide-screen extra monitor (2x1680x1050 desktop yay), and I've got a project to start with, making improvements to the department's DHCP services. Also: I have coworkers! They make geeky jokes and are glad to see me!

It's good to be back.

Challenges on day one: my work calendar (Oracle Calendar) isn't compatible with gmail calendar, iCal.app, or my phone. [ETA: maybe. I can manually import/export .ical files, and maybe there's a way to subscribe to Oracle's data. But probably not.]

My personal task-tracking system isn't compatible with the hacked-up version of RT we use. I have no idea how I should record my work tasks, since our RT isn't exactly compatible with the "Getting Things Done" method of making a new item for everything that will take longer than a few minutes.

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[da-lj.livejournal.com]

When I was writing this, I mostly meant that 'Tracks' wouldn't be able to import items via the RT items (so it's incompatible with getting data from, say, emails).

In RT: I wish there were different views of the same item.
Such as to collapse comments that weren't relevant to me (or replace them with a one-line summary). The best options are changing the Summary at the top, or starting a parallel RT item that has the bits that are relevant to me, but that has always felt hackish. Fundamentally: my summary / list of responsibility is going to be different from the next participant's, so my view of the item should possibly be different as well.